Tonight, Trudeau goes into hiding as the trucker's convoy approaches Ottawa. Will the media cover it? Will the Liberals try to cover it up? Or will they be embarrassed by what they cover? And what will the media do when they find out about it?
00:05:06.480A small fringe minority, eh? Yeah, that's a small fringe, is it? Looks pretty big to me.
00:05:13.480But what's more concerning is his statement that those truckers hold unacceptable views, really.
00:05:19.480It's quite a thing for a prime minister to say. I've read the Charter of Rights. It guarantees
00:05:23.480our freedom of expression. But here we have the chief lawmaker, the chief law enforcer, really,
00:05:28.480the man who handpicked the RCMP commissioner, saying there are now views that are unacceptable,
00:05:33.480really. And silence. Where are the free speech groups? Where's the civil liberties lobby?
00:05:39.480Where's the cowardly leader of the opposition, Aaron O'Toole? Is he waiting for an opinion poll
00:05:44.480to tell him what to do, what to think? He's fine with the prime minister determining which
00:05:48.480views are acceptable or not, is he? I say again, the de facto leader of the opposition is Pierre
00:05:53.480Polyev, who has been strong on this for a while. Here he is responding not so much to Trudeau,
00:05:59.480but to the media party, which has joined the frenzy of going through every single supporter
00:06:04.480of the convoy and doxing and harassing them. He watched this whole thing. I think it's great.
00:06:09.480What do you make of the extreme elements trying to latch on to the truck convoy?
00:06:13.480Well, you know what I think is interesting is that, um, when there's a left-wing protest
00:06:20.480on Parliament Hill, we don't see the liberal media going through every single name of the
00:06:26.480people who attends to try and find one person that they can disparage the whole group with.
00:06:32.480Um, you know, we don't see, um, CBC, for example, has been accused by its own employees of systemic
00:06:41.480racism, and yet we don't see the media here generalize that everyone who works at the CBC
00:06:47.480is a racist. Whenever you have, um, five or ten thousand people who are part of any group,
00:06:55.480you're bound to have a number who have or say unacceptable things, and they should be individually
00:07:05.480responsible for the things they say and do. But that doesn't mean we disparage the thousands
00:07:13.480of hard-working, law-abiding, and peaceful truckers who, quite frankly, have kept all of you alive
00:07:21.480the last two years by filling your grocery shelves with the food that you eat, and filling your
00:07:27.480homes with the products that you rely upon. So, I think that it is possible to hold individually
00:07:34.480responsible anyone who says or does anything unacceptable, while showing support for the
00:07:42.480hard-working, law-abiding, peace-loving truckers who are fighting for their freedom and their
00:07:50.480livelihoods, and on whom we have defended, we have depended for our very existence over
00:07:57.480the last two years. That's three things. That's a conservative, that's a leader, and that's
00:08:02.480opposition. Three things that O'Toole is not. Such a cowardice in our country, I regret.
00:08:07.480Here's Elon Musk, the richest man in the world, between him and Jeff Bezos, goes back and forth.
00:08:13.480He's got a three-word tweet, Canadian truckers rule. It's not a lot, three words, but it's also
00:08:20.480a lot more than any Canadian business leader has said. Why is that? We've got 38 million
00:08:25.480people in Canada. Is every business leader too terrified? Too worried about being punished
00:08:31.480by Trudeau, or the media, or cancel culture? Too afraid of losing a government grant, or a
00:08:35.480government subsidy, or a government contract? Why do we need to rely on foreign business leaders
00:08:39.480to speak up for us? The convoy is huge. I think it could be the largest protest in
00:08:46.480Canadian history. It's coast to coast, multiple strands meeting up. Some police were harassing
00:08:53.480the convoy, even blocking a highway, saying it was too treacherous. Yeah, sure it was.
00:08:57.480That's the ticket. Why not just pull a Trudeau and say, COVID says you can't use this highway
00:09:02.480right now. What a joke. I'm embarrassed for police as I am for our business community.
00:09:08.480The media, however, had their cue. So here's the Toronto Star editorial.
00:09:15.480They really published this in Cannes' largest newspaper. Truckers are flirting with extremists.
00:09:20.480They should call off their protest. The closer the freedom convoy of truckers
00:09:24.480opposed to new rules around vaccine mandates gets to Ottawa,
00:09:27.480the less it has to do with truckers, or even with those rules.
00:09:31.480Now, they don't say a single thing the convoy or anyone on it did wrong. Not a thing. I don't think they've spoken to anyone on the convoy.
00:09:54.480It would sound a little bit too much like Trudeau firing Jody Wilson Rabel, two old boys clubs.
00:09:59.480So they don't actually talk to the leader of the convoy. I won't take you through the whole editorial, but this is my favorite argument in it.
00:10:06.480Likewise, ponder the hallucinatory artwork featuring truckers parting the seas, Moses style, with a burning cross, no less, in the background.
00:10:17.480So they're talking about this image here. It's just a fun drawing, some fan art, but from some amateur artist on the internet.
00:10:27.480It's just literally someone, an ordinary person with their thoughts. It's a bit dramatic, but so what?
00:10:33.480It's literally a drawing commenting on the convoy. Why should a convoy stop? Because some stranger drew a picture about it.
00:10:40.480Here is the Toronto Stars cartoon about it. A baseless claim, a smear against thousands of truckers and hundreds of thousands of supporters of truckers saying they're extremist.
00:10:53.480No proof, just the smear. A bit odd for a newspaper that calls itself the paper of the working class, but they have their marching orders.
00:11:13.480The Stars are going full tilt on this, like they've really decided that this is the big fight.
00:11:19.480Here's Bob Hepburn, a columnist over there. Time to call out nasty, hate-filled anti-vaxxers.
00:11:26.480A vocal subsect of the anti-vax crowd gets free reign to spew its hate-filled abuse via social media and online.
00:11:34.480So he hates them in short. All this talk about no bullying, bell let's talk, mental health, they don't really mean it.
00:11:41.480They hate who they hate and they're going to hate them.
00:11:44.480These are the bullies and foul-mouthed punks we all remember from high school.
00:11:48.480Really? Not wanting to have the physical integrity of your own body violated?
00:11:53.480You're calling that person, the defensive person, the bully? The one who wants to be left alone in peace and privacy?
00:11:58.480That's the bully in this conversation?
00:12:01.480Over the past few months I have received countless nasty emails from anti-vaxxers who objected to my comments
00:12:08.480that I'm fed up with the refusals to be vaccinated and that I believe politicians should adopt get-tough restrictions on the unvaccinated.
00:12:15.480It could be he got some mean emails. The world is a big place. The internet is a big place.
00:12:19.480Lots of people are pretty brave when they're typing at home on their computer instead of talking to you face-to-face.
00:12:25.480I get it. I think that's just part of being in public.
00:12:30.480It's just a bit much to hear such a sensitive soul working as a senior big shot as a Toronto Star.
00:12:39.480A newspaper that literally published a bunch of anti-vaxx hatred on their front page.
00:12:44.480I didn't know Bob Hepburn was so sensitive. I didn't know.
00:12:48.480Imagine working for the Toronto Star and thinking that you're for the working class, for the underdog, for minorities,
00:12:53.480who are less likely to get jabbed by the way.
00:12:56.480Imagine the mental gymnastics of deploying your power to hold the people to account on behalf of the politicians rather than the other way around.
00:13:05.480Huh. Here's the Globe and Mail getting in on it too. All of Toronto's decided the same way. It's just so odd.
00:13:12.480Aaron O'Toole has to unhitch conservatives from the Freedom Convoy or get run over.
00:13:17.480Now, this editorial is unsigned, so it's an official statement of the whole company owned by Canada's richest man.
00:13:24.480The official establishment has a party line, and in this case, they're not going after the truckers.
00:13:29.480In this editorial, they're going after Aaron O'Toole telling him to silence the conservative MPs in this party who support the truckers.
00:13:36.480They know he will obey media pressure. He'll bend to it. He always does.
00:13:41.480I love this line in their editorial. They say, this page has spent the past year advocating for the scientifically obvious, which is that vaccination is key to getting beyond the pandemic.
00:13:53.480We have supported vaccine passports in non-essential businesses and vaccine management in workplaces and higher education.
00:13:59.480Got it. Got it. So it's it's just scientifically obvious people.
00:14:03.480I mean, vaccination is the key to getting past this.
00:14:06.480Israel is on its fourth shot. I think they're starting their fifth shot now in one year.
00:14:11.480I can't remember exactly how many doses, but it has never had more cases.
00:14:17.480Even the head of Pfizer now says the shot doesn't work against Omicron. Listen to him yourself.
00:14:23.480Et cetera, et cetera. So and we know that the three the two doses of the vaccine offer very limited protection, if any.
00:14:30.480If any, the three doses with a booster, they offer reasonable protection against hospitalization and deaths.
00:14:39.480Against deaths, I think very good and less protection against the infection.
00:14:46.480Now, we are working on a on a new version of our vaccine, the 1.1.
00:14:51.480Let me put it that way, that will cover Omicron as well.
00:14:55.480And of course, we are waiting to have the final results.
00:15:01.480The vaccine will be ready in March and the vaccine will be able to produce it massively.
00:15:07.480We need to see if we will need it and we need to see if and what place can take in the overall fight against the virus,
00:15:19.480particularly now that we know that mutations are coming faster, that we have a treatment.
00:15:24.480So all of that needs to be taken seriously in consideration. But we've never had more.
00:15:28.480But it's scientifically obvious, says the Globe and Mail. Look, I'm not so much worried about what the mainstream media is going to do what they do.
00:15:37.480Their readership is falling for a reason. They really have no teeth.
00:15:41.480That's why they're all getting bailouts from Trudeau. It's the only way for them to survive.
00:15:45.480But what about the weaponization and radicalization of the Canadian security deep state?
00:15:51.480Canada doesn't have much of a security deep state, what Eisenhower called the military industrial complex.
00:15:59.480We're pretty lame up here by some measures. I mean, terrorists and other serious criminals are often caught when U.S. authorities warn Canadian authorities because we would have missed it.
00:16:09.480And here's a question. How many ISIS terrorists who went from Canada to Syria and Iraq and then returned were ever charged?
00:16:16.480We know over a hundred returned. How many of them have ever been charged and prosecuted?
00:16:21.480Canada's national security deep state is actually useless at protecting us against real threats.
00:16:28.480But they've been politically weaponized against peaceful domestic critics of the government, against conservative activists who are peaceful.
00:16:35.480And so you're starting to hear their drumbeat. That convoy is violent.
00:16:39.480They're going to ram their trucks into things, no evidence. They just know it in their bones and you'd trust them, wouldn't you?
00:16:45.480Here's a newsletter called Parliament Today that actually published some global security expert who said, and I'm not kidding.
00:16:54.480She actually said this. Take a look at the screenshot.
00:16:57.480Anyone who donated money to the convoy, and there's 80,000 people now, could be prosecuted for the crime of supporting terrorism.
00:17:04.480She actually said that, and it was actually reported.
00:17:07.480And look at that. This kook referenced January 6th.
00:17:10.480That's what the left calls an insurrection in Washington, D.C.
00:17:13.480Even though I don't think a single person has actually been charged with insurrection down there in Washington.
00:17:19.480Remember all the excitement about January 6th in the Capitol building?
00:17:22.480Well, it turned out that it was whipped up by agents provocateurs working for the FBI.
00:17:26.480Here's Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massey asking about that.
00:17:33.480Put it out there. I'm probably going to go to jail for it.
00:17:35.480Tomorrow. We need to go into the Capitol. Into the Capitol.
00:17:41.480As far as we can find, this individual has not been charged with anything.
00:17:50.480You said this is one of the most sweeping investigations in history.
00:17:54.480Have you seen that video or those frames from that video?
00:17:58.480So, as I said at the outset, one of the norms of the Justice Department is to not comment on impending investigations,
00:18:07.480and particularly not to comment about particular scenes or particular individuals.
00:18:14.480Well, the individual that the attorney general refuses to answer questions about is a man named Ray Epps.
00:18:20.480So why is he potentially important here?
00:18:22.480Well, according to a new investigation from Revolver, Epps may have led the breach team that first entered the Capitol on January 6th.
00:18:31.480Moreover, Revolver also reports that the FBI stealthily removed Ray Epps from its Capitol violence most wanted list on July 1st.
00:22:13.480Max, if you're going to tag me in a tweet, attack my work and feel the deluge of hate directed my way, you could at least be brave enough to not do it from behind a block.
00:22:27.480Yeah, Rachel Gilmore was one of the authors of this smear that we talked about a few days ago that called people insiders of violence without a single piece of evidence shown.
00:22:36.480Not when I took you through the story.
00:22:38.480Remember, that's what I really went through.
00:22:39.480So she can smear you, but you can't clap back at her.
00:30:10.480Yeah, I think that it, you know, it becomes less taboo now to speak out against the widely accepted narrative.
00:30:18.480And as that, I like to call it the ground swell.
00:30:22.480As that ground swell happens, you see more and more people now feeling more comfortable to stand up and come out and express their concerns.
00:30:30.480I know here at this little, this, well, it's not little, actually, there's several hundred people here throughout the last few hours.
00:30:36.480There is a business owner here giving coffee and hot beverages out to the attendees.
00:30:41.480And, of course, intermittently the truckers as they kind of trickle through.
00:30:46.480So, so I think that as that shift happens and the pendulum swings to it being less fringy, as our dear Prime Minister put it so kindly yesterday or the day before, to hold these views which he deems unacceptable.
00:31:01.480I think that more and more people now are banding together and saying enough is enough.
00:31:05.480Earlier today on my monologue, I read from the Toronto Star and the Globe and Mail, which have both denounced and demonized the protesters.
00:31:14.480I can't imagine there's very many truckers out there who say, let me see what the editorial board of the Globe and Mail has to say about me.
00:31:22.480I just don't think that the Globe and Mail is the paper of choice for anyone outside some very elite enclaves of the downtownist downtown in Toronto, but maybe I'm wrong.
00:31:33.480Have either the truckers or the people on the side of the road that you've encountered, are they aware of the demonization by the media?
00:31:45.480I've seen a lot of minorities who are truckers.
00:31:48.480A lot of truckers are new immigrants, a lot of Sikh truckers, a lot of truckers from various backgrounds in the North, obviously.
00:31:55.480In Northern Canada, you've got a lot of indigenous truckers.
00:31:58.480Have you heard, like, is this just an inside chatter, inside the chattering classes, or are ordinary people thinking, yeah, they hate us and they're demonizing us?
00:32:11.480They seem increasingly aware that this is going on.
00:32:16.480What I heard from some of the actual truckers who are part of the convoy is that, you know, they often don't care about whatever else is happening outside world because they're working.
00:32:26.480They just want to put their heads down and carry their loads and get the goods to the Canadian public.
00:32:33.480But now the government has continued to overstep on to their, their ability to do that.
00:32:41.480And so they have, they're, they're getting increasingly frustrated.
00:32:45.480And when, whereas they wouldn't normally maybe pay attention to these sorts of things, now they're becoming increasingly aware of it.
00:32:51.480They don't care the, they see the massive support that is for the convoy on the way here.
00:32:59.480I asked everyone that I spoke to who had driven from various points throughout Northern and other areas of Ontario and stopped here, what the support looked like and how that made them feel.
00:33:10.480And the majority of them were almost to tears and just so humbled by the extreme amounts of people who've come out on the overpasses and garnering their support.
00:33:22.480And it begs to reason that this isn't just a fringe minority.
00:33:27.480This is way bigger than I think any of us ever anticipated.
00:33:31.480And for, for Trudeau to try to ignore this just expresses how out of touch he is.
00:33:38.480Yeah. You know, there's a lot of similarities between this and the entire establishment's condemnation of it.
00:33:45.480And Brexit in the UK, where every party, every media outlet, every company was against Brexit, everyone except the people.
00:33:54.480And all of the, and, and even Trump in 2016, the underdog, the deplorables as Hillary Clinton called them.
00:34:01.480And here we are Trudeau's own deplorables moment.
00:34:49.480Because at the end of it, there's no vote.
00:34:51.480There's just truckers and people, but you have a prime minister who's running away literally for five days.
00:34:57.480I don't know how this is going to end.
00:34:59.480I think Trudeau is just going to laugh at it.
00:35:01.480Yeah, and that's kind of what I gauge some of the opinions of the, again, the people actually headstrong in this convoy.
00:35:10.480And they're ready to hunker down in Ottawa for as long as it takes is what I'm hearing on the ground today.
00:35:16.480The food here, oh my gosh, the footage I have of the food that's been prepared for these truckers.
00:35:22.480One of them told me that he has enough to feed him for a month if he so needs.
00:35:27.480So they want to see an end to all mandates.
00:35:31.480They want to get back to our old normal.
00:35:35.480And they're not, apparently they're not leaving until that demand is met.
00:35:39.480They're happy to have a conversation and they want, they would love to have anyone in parliament or politicians come forward and have a discussion with them.
00:35:48.480But I think that their demands are very clear and they've had enough and they're not going to be backing down.
00:35:55.480They intend to keep it peaceful and do it in a way that is civil and, you know, classic civil disobedience.
00:36:03.480Because every other institution that we have in place to prevent this gross overreach for such a prolonged time, right?
00:36:10.480Like Canadians agreed, and questionably so, to do these measures as a temporary thing.
00:36:20.480It's a permanent revolution, as Castro would say.
00:36:23.480My one worry is that there will be a false flag or some Reichstag fire.
00:36:27.480Some excuse, some, something, either one person doing something wrong that's blown up or, or even worse, some sort of false flag, Ray Epps kind of moment to spark the Trudeau response, to spark a police response, a counter-terrorism response.
00:36:47.480I think that the peaceful protest is exactly what Trudeau does not want.
00:36:52.480I think he wants proof that these are sinister, odious people that need to be tackled by domestic counter-terrorism.
00:36:58.480And I'm worried, given the track record of CSIS and the RCMP, that they will serve him up with that incident if it doesn't happen naturally.
00:37:06.480I know that sounds paranoid, but we have several instances of that happening historically.
00:37:11.480Tamara, it's great to catch up with you.
00:37:13.480Thank you for being outside in the very cold weather.
00:37:16.480You're one of 10 people in the field today for Rebel News.
00:37:18.480I feel like we're, we're covering this better than anyone else in the country.